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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
How come you don't vote for politicians to give you what you want?
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I’m gonna go ahead and assume you’ve never been to the US. Here are some statistics I’m making up as I go:
80% of Americans don’t answer the phone for surveys
70% don’t answer the phone ever
60% lie about what they want (especially when answering survey questions)
50% have no idea what they want
and most important…
9 out of 10 think there is something wrong with what they want. If they want sex then they immediately start a petition to get pornography and other sex-related industry out of their community. If they want drugs then they elect public officials promising harsher prison sentences for drug-offenders. If they want food - well, that’s a bad example - we eat a lot!
But yeah, if we want something we immediately seem to assume it’s bad and move to extinguish it from existence. This is probably above all the reason most liberal voters elect Bushish candidates. It’s a puritan thing the scope of which can’t really be understood until you spend some time here.
